And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.